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Post-tropical Cyclone Six-E - Band 9 at 18.2°N - 118.0°W
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Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0440 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0450 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0510 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0520 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0530 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0540 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0550 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0600 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0610 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0620 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0630 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0640 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0650 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0700 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0710 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0720 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0730 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0740 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0750 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0800 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0820 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0830 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0840 UTC
Band 9 - 6.9 µm - Mid-Level Water Vapor - IR - 15 Jul 2020 - 0850 UTC
Band 9 key:
This band shows atmospheric temperatures in Celsius. Values in the red to yellow range represent a dry atmosphere. Values between yellow and white, including blue, represent a relatively moist atmosphere. Values colder than white, including green, represent clouds.
6.9 µm - "Mid-level Water Vapor" Band - 2 km resolution - Band 9 is the mid-level water vapor band. It is used for tracking middle-tropospheric winds, identifying jet streams, forecasting hurricane track and mid-latitude storm motion, monitoring severe weather potential, estimating mid-level moisture (for legacy vertical moisture profiles)and identifying regions where turbulence might exist. Surface features are usually not apparent in this band. Brightness Temperatures show cooling because of absorption of energy at 6.9 µm by water vapor.
The imager on GOES-16 features three mid-level water vapor bands instead of the single water vapor band on the GOES-13 Imager. The single water vapor band on GOES-13 contained a mixture of water vapor features over many levels of the troposphere, but GOES-16 enables us to focus on water vapor in the upper troposphere (band 8), the middle troposphere (band 9), or the lower troposphere (band 10). The GOES-13 Imager water vapor channel falls between ABI bands 8 and 9.
